Mr Trevor Feder

Trevor Feder is a lecturer at the University of South Australia and teaches in the Bachelor of Early Childhood Education at the Magill Campus of the University of South Australia.

Trevor worked as a teacher with the Education Department of South Australia for 15 years. He was a senior tutor at the South Australian College of Advanced Education and coordinated the Aboriginal Early Childhood Education Program in that institution. He has been a lecturer with the University of South Australia since 1991.

In recent years he has worked in Papua New Guinea and eastern Indonesia.

de Lissa Institute

• Mathematics education
• Cultural, utilitarian and aesthetic origins of mathematics
• Early childhood practicum
• Communication

Member, Australian Early Childhood Association

Member, Adelaide Consortium for Mathematics Education

Member, de Lissa Research Centre

Lady Gowrie Child Centre Management Committee

Member of Reference group for South Australian Curriculum Standards and Accountability Frameworks

Grad Cert in Mathematics Education, University of Adelaide (1995)

BEd, South Australian College of Advanced Education (1982)

DipT (Primary), (1978) Hartley College of Advanced Education

• Mathematics education
• Males in early childhood
• Parenting practices

Russell, A., Aloa, V., Feder, T., Glover, A., Miller, H., Palmer, G., Sex -based Differences in Parenting Styles in a Sample with Preschool Children, Australian Journal of Psychology, Vol 50, No. 2 1998.

Carrington, A., Feder, T., Student Teachers' Appreciation of Cultural Utilitarian and Aesthetic Origins of Mathematics, presented at 8th International Congress on Mathematical Education, Seville, Spain, 1996.